Snowy Beeches

Fantastic image, Scott! I like the composition you came up with here and totally enjoy the feel this has. Perfect conditions to make this shot in. I can't see anything I would even consider changing or want any different. I think this would make a wonderful winter print.

Nick Bristol
Lone Lock, WI

Hi  Scott   A wonderfull  winter scene.      perfectly composed ,  capturing  the  beautiful  beech  branches and  snow,    with perfect natural  detail  and colors

Albert Darmo
Canada

Can't go wrong with that combination of yellow leaves and snow, that is a real winning combination. And one that I don't recall seeing very often in my own area, so another reason to like it! I wonder if cropping a bit from the left and putting the tree at the edge of the frame would work too? Not meant as an improvement but more as an experiment.

Scott, this is a wonderful composition full of subtlety to me. While the foreground tree anchors the images nicely for me, I enjoy the delicate details in the barks, leaves and twigs. Your processing is spot on to my eye.

Peter

The color in the leaves is great, Scott.  They add some fine warmth and contrast to the snow.  I'm also thoroughly enjoying the strong diagonal comp. that is anchored so well in the trunk with all of it's subtle detail.

Beautifully done, Scott. The graphics in this image really stand out. Wonderful composition and I really like the warm colors.

Well done Scott, beautifully seen and captured!  The way the snow is piled up on the trunk I get the distinct impression this tree is buried!  There is great depth here as well with those branches extending out diagonally.  And you managed such great detail front to back; if this isn't a focus stack, may I ask where your point of focus was? If you remember.

Beautiful winter scene, Great eye to see this.

Lon

Thanks for the comments. Lon, not a focus stack. At 36mm, I was confident I could get everything in focus at f16, and I would have used my dof preview and then checked the result. I don't recall what I focused on exactly as I would have just guess/estimated my hyperfocal point. I do recall thinking that the distant background detail was not critical to the shot but I needed everything in front sharp, so I would have erred on making sure this was the case. 

Wonderful image. Great combination of the of warm, yellow leaves and the snow. Love the composition.

That bit of warmth with the yellow leaves make this a winner for me, Scott. I like the crispness of this winter scene and the fact that you emphasized the horizontal format with the placement of the leaves. Very nicely done.

Ed
 

Very nice colors, shapes, and textures here. In some ways I'm jealous of you folks who have snow for photographic reasons, however I don't have to shovel it. This is a very nice composition with nice orange colors against the gray shades of the birch.

Fabulous combination of color and texture, Scott. Like others, I find the composition with vertical and diagonal lines very attractive. Top notch techs.

Hi Scott,

This is a beautifully intimate capture of the this beech tree, and I enjoy the sense of winter but how much snow has gathered around the tree. The yellow leaves add a sweet pop of color, and the diagonal lines of the branches leading up to the tree trunk are sweet.

Well seen and captured

A lovely composition, Scott.  I really like how the trunk anchors the image at the top and the branches slide down the frame.

Scott,
Beautiful, intimate scene. Love the colors - the yellow leaves really pop in the snow under the soft lighting conditions. The comp works very well with the horizontal branches forming a repeating pattern that makes order out of what could have been chaos.

Really a treat of patterns, especially in the larger image Scott. Nice catching these trees with yellow leaves and snow.

Love beech leaves with their strong autumn colours against the snow.  Here's a nice word for you..  Deciduous trees that hang onto their leaves even though they have clearly changed colour and should by rights have been shed exhibit something called marcessence, (it may be incorrectly spelt), Beech leaves are notorious for that due to the thick heel of fibre where they attach to the stems.  Almost as good a word as tubbidextrous, the ability to turn on the taps on your bath with your toes. 

The juxtaposition of the deferent elements has been carried to perfection in this composition. It looks so natural but clearly shows the cleverness involved in its derivation. I love it!

A compelling show of the changing of seasons.